Search Results: Authors starting with M from Rare Collections

London: MacMillan. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1987. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. The first book in Banks’s popular Culture Series. Amazon announced a TV adaptation in 2018, but this got cancelled in August 2020, probably due to the pandemic, but it will probably just be time before these well loved stories makes it to our screens. A fine unread book in a NF - F DJ with slight fading to the spine. There is a small dealer price sticker on the front cover. Unclipped but with no price, I believe this is an export DJ. DW now in a protective acetate cover. ; Culture Series .

London: Orbit. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1991. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. The 4th book in the Culture series, containing a collection of short stories from the universe. A fine unread copy in a like jacket now with Archival cover. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Paris: Au Moulin De Pen-Mur. Very Good+. 1946. Hardcover. A beautiful copy with original chamise and slipcase, slipcase showing some splits and stains. Invoice laid in dated 1991. Discreet blind stamp in the back for Heatham Mill Library. Book in VG= or better condition; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

New York: Tor. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2004. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine DJ, flat signed by Maclead on the title page. " After the events of the Hard Rapture, a catastrophic conflict ignited by the sudden evolution of Earth's artificial intelligences into transcendent post-humans, millions of humans were brutally butchered by the post-humans' war machines. Some space-faring humans returned to Earth to heroically fight the war machines while others escaped to distant stars to try and start over again. Then, the ultimately triumphant post-humans inexplicably disappeared and left the remnants of humanity to their own devices. Now, centuries later, Lucinda Carlyle -- an untested leader in a family of galactic entrepreneurs (a. K. A. Crooks) who have taken control of a chain of invaluable wormholes left behind by the post-humans -- stumbles across a gate that leads to a remote planet (Eurydice) inhabited by a colony of isolated humans living in… Read More

New York: Tor. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2007. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A fine copy in a like DJ, signed by Macleod on the title page. Nominated for BSFA, Quill, Campbell Memorial, Locus, Prometheus and Clarke Awards ; Signed by Author .

New York: Tor. Fine+ in Fine+ dust jacket. 2001. First US Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1st US edition, winner of the 1996 Prometheus Award. A very fine copy in a like DJ, signed by Maclead ; Signed by Author .

London: Orbit. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1999. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A fine copy in a like DJ, signed by Macleod on the title Page. Winner of BFSA Award and nominated for Hugo and Locus award. Jacket now with a brodart cover. ; Signed by Author .

Subterranean Press. Fine+ in Fine+ dust jacket. 2010. Limited Edition. Hardcover. A beautiful and unique copy of Macleod's collection of stories. This copy being #57 of 750 copies, signed by the author. Additional signed with a pen drawing of an elephant on the half title by the DJ artist Edward Miller. A fine copy in a fine DJ, jacket now with a brodart cover for protection. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author & Illustrator .

New York: Tor. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2005. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Prometheus winner and nominated for Hugo and Locus Award. A fine copy in a like DJ, flat signed by author on the title page. ; Signed by Author .

London: Orbit. Fine+ in Fine dust jacket. 1999. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. BSFA winner and Hugo and Locus Award Nominee. A fine copy in a like DJ, signed by Maclead. ; Signed by Author .

New York: Tor. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2003. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A fine copy in a like DJ, signed by author on the title page; Signed by Author .

PS Publishing. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2001. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Limited edition this being copy #177 of 500 signed by Macleod. Fine copy in a NF DJ ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author .

New York: Tor. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2001. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A fine copy in a like DJ, signed by Macleod on the title page. The book was nominated for a Hugo Award; Signed by Author .

New York: The Heritage Press. Near Fine. 1956. Hardcover. Introduction by Laura Benet and illustrated by Edward Ardizzone. A near fine book with some fading and wear on the spine. Original sandglass laid in. Near fine slipcase with some general wear; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 441 pages .

The Easton Press. Near Fine. 1979. Collector's Edition. Hardcover. Part of the 100 Greatest Books Ever Written Series. Full leather binding, gilt lettering in 22k Gold, moire fabric endpapers, satin ribbon marker still in original position. A NF copy; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall .

The Easton Press. Near Fine. 1979. Collector's Edition. Hardcover. Part of the 100 Greatest Books Ever Written Series. Full leather binding, gilt lettering in 22k Gold, moire fabric endpapers, satin ribbon marker still in original position. A NF copy; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall .

New York: Del Rey Books (Science Fiction and Fantasy). Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2020. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine DJ of the first edition. Signed by Malerman on a special tipped in page, sequal to "Bird Box"; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; Signed by Author .

PS Publishing. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2020. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 100 signed copies, signed by author on the special limitation page. Book and jacket both in fine - as new condition. Publisher synopsis - "The goddess Amaranth, Queen of the Broken, has been reborn for the first time in generations and now resides once more in her distant tower, observing the world through her strange, fractured eyes. Three pilgrims set out on the trail to find her, each for their own reasons: Pallor, the Knight of Perish, who wishes to die by a worthy hand and will challenge the goddess to a fight to the death; Nok, the tribal Wolkin, who carries her brother’s bones to beg Amaranth to restore him to the afterlife; and Ambrose, the monk, charged by his Order to seek the answer to the unanswerable question at the heart of his faith. Each of these pilgrims will be tested on the road to their inevitable convergence—and each will be granted answers, of a sort, from the Broken… Read More

New York: The Limited Editions Club. Very Good+. 1981. Limited Edition. Hardcover. English translation by C. F. MacIntyre and with a preface by Harry t. Moore and lithographs by Robert Kipniss, who also signed this edition, this is #955 of 2000 copies. VG+ or better copy with some fading to the spine. Near fine slipcase. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Illustrator .

London: Tower Publishing. Very Good. 1896. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A scarce copy of this Lost Race adventure novel. Set in African with Zulu armies and some europeans attempting to invade an advance scientific nation. "...for me it represents one of the peaks of development of 19th century science fiction: the lost race novel of the kind popularied by Rider Haggard, dressed up in a format which is perhaps as close as any British publisher came to matching the splendour of the French Vernes" - Spectrum of Fantasy Vol 1 page 151. VG book, some signs of slight damp to top of boards and of top and foredge, slightly visible on endpapers. Small stain at the top of pages 25-28. Lengthy dealer note in front and contemporary owners name in pen. 8 illustrated plates, publsihers ads in th eback on pages 325-328. With exception of the above internally clean and in NF condition. Provenance - From the Gary Munson Collection; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .